Doors of Perception

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, til he sees all things through narrow chinks in his cavern.

#William Blake

Matthaei Gardens, Michigan

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Graceful Is as Graceful Glides

There’s a double beauty whenever a swan swims on a lake with her double thereon.
–Thomas Hood

As We See the World

We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.

Anais Nin

Matthaei Woods, Michigan

Invincible Summer

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Pine River, Michigan
Huron National Forest

A Quiet Brook at Winter Solstice

Daisy:   Do you ever watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?

Jay Gatsby:  Don’t you mean the shortest day of the year, Daisy?

Daisy:   Jay, I’m p-p-paralyzed with happiness that the days will be getting longer now. (a few liberties taken with Great Gatsby)

Hints of Colors to Come

In my part of Michigan, the leaves are just beginning to change color on the first day of autumn, hinting at glorious colors to follow.

 

Matthaei Gardens, Michigan

Our Doubts Are Traitors

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Power of the Suggestive

The power of the suggestive is much greater than
the statement of reality.

C.W. Mundy

Kensington Park, Michigan

Beauty in Light and Shadow

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy,   Anna Karenina

Summer’s medley, composed of light and shadow.  is now playing at Michigan’s lakes and woods.

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Dreamer Finding His Way by Moonlight

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Iargo Springs, Huron Nat’l Forest, Michigan